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Kindlebility is a clever bookmarklet that makes it dead simple to snip, format, and shuttle articles you find on the web to your Kindle. The service is free, fast, and shockingly good at formatting articles for the Kindle.

Using the bookmarklet is simple. It’s not quite as simple as your average bookmarklet–wherein you just click it on the page you want and instantly get results–it does require a very tiny amount of setup.

You’ll need to visit the Kindlebility website and enter your Kindle email address to generate the bookmarklet–i.e. yourkindlename@free.kindle.com–and then authorize the Kindlebility server to email you. You’ll find the email white list under the Manage My Kindle settings in your Amazon account. Once you’ve done those two things all you need to do is click the “Send to my Kindle!” bookmarklet any time you want to send articles do your Kindle.

The bookmarklet is snappy and, assuming you’re either using a 3G Kindle or connected to a Wi-Fi node, you’ll have the article in a matter of seconds. We tested it on articles from How-To Geek– including the Custom Kindle Screensaver guide seen in the photo above–Salon, The New York Times, and other blogs and newspapers. The image conversion and formatting was spot on in every test.

Jason Fitzpatrick is a warranty-voiding DIYer who spends his days cracking opening cases and wrestling with code so you don't have to. If it can be modded, optimized, repurposed, or torn apart for fun he's interested (and probably already at the workbench taking it apart). You can follow him on Twitter if you'd like.

Kindlebility doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ve followed the instructions, but when I want to send an article to my Kindle a box appears on my browser that says “working” and nothing happens. I’m running Firefox 4.0 — is that a problem?